Quotes and Sayings about Advice
"There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Advice, Nothing)
"A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes."
- Joseph Addison
(Related: Wedding, Advice, Clothes, Woman)
"Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Advice)
"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Advice, Concern, Man, Woman)
"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Advice, Prosperity)
"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer."
- Aeschylus
(Related: Advice, Calamity)
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."
- Aesop
(Related: Trust, Advice, Difficulties, Man)
"Don't give advice unless you're asked."
- Amy Alcott
(Related: Advice)
"Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change."
- Alan Alda
(Related: Change, Advice, Uncertainty)
"I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act."
- Jennifer Aniston
(Related: Business, People, Family, Act, Advice, Job, Rejection, Want)
"I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes."
- Fiona Apple
(Related: Advice, Mistakes, Want)
"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice."
- Norman Ralph Augustine
(Related: Selling, Advice, Buying, Experts)
"My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school."
- Jillian Bach
(Related: Education, Acting, Advice, First, Liberal, School, Want)
"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Advice, Example)
"The worst men often give the best advice."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Men, Advice)
"He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Faith, Advice, Sound)
"If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Advice, Right)
"When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek."
- Abu Bakr
(Related: Advice, Facts)
"Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro."
- Dave Barry
(Related: Advice, Old)
"Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement."
- Steve Bartlett
(Related: Ability, Advice, Americans, Investment, Retirement, Will)
"The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this."
- Abu Bakar Bashir
(Related: Muslim, Advice, Countries, Leaders, World)
"It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it."
- Martin Bashir
(Related: Legal, Family, Advice, Agreement)
"Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway."
- Sean Bean
(Related: People, Advice, Goodness)
"I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility."
- Boris Becker
(Related: Time, Advice, Lawyers, Responsibility, Wrong)
"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: People, Advice, Giving, Right, Trying)
"I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Business, Family, Work, Actors, Advice, Disappointment, End, Famous)
"I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded."
- Kristen Bell
(Related: Business, Family, Work, Actors, Advice, Disappointment, End, Famous)
"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
- Saul Bellow
(Related: Advice)
"There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Advice, Famous, Giving, Misleading, Old, states)
"A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Advice)
"Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies."
- Irving Berlin
(Related: Advice, Hate, Song)
"The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them."
- Bruno Bettelheim
(Related: Fear, Failure, Advice, Books, Children, Desire, Right, Wonder)
"Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Advice, Oil)
"When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him."
- Josh Billings
(Related: Advice, Man)
"Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected."
- Josh Billings
(Related: People, Advice, Opinions)
"Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline."
- Jeff Bingaman
(Related: Actions, Advice, Help)
"The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in."
- Cilla Black
(Related: Advice)
"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again."
- Hugo Black
(Related: Advice, Man, Play, Tennis)
"A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time."
- Alexis Bledel
(Related: Time, Acting, Advice, Girls, Right)
"When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Mother, Advice, Want)
"I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person."
- Jonathan Brandis
(Related: Advice, Right)
"I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions."
- Joyce Brothers
(Related: Time, Actions, Advice, Consequences)
"For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near - do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people."
- Scott Brown
(Related: Leadership, Time, People, Advice, Congress, Mind, Party, Will)
"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."
- Warren Buffett
(Related: People, Advice)
"It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad."
- Abigail Van Buren
(Related: Dad, Mom, Advice)
"It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house."
- Warren E. Burger
(Related: Legal, Advertising, Advice, First, Visit, Will)
"In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons."
- James MacGregor Burns
(Related: Life, Advice, Leaders)
"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
- John Burroughs
(Related: Advice, Earth, Man, Will)
"Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either."
- Meg Cabot
(Related: People, Advice, Will, Writing)
"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."
- James Callaghan
(Related: Leader, Courage, Act, Advice)
"We will say to people that if you can work, and if you want to work, we will do everything we can to help you. We will give you the training, we will give you the support, we will give you the advice to get you going and get you back at work."
- David Cameron
(Related: Work, People, Advice, Help, Support, Training, Want, Will)
"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"
- Frank Capra
(Related: Advice, Film)
"All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people."
- Alexis Carrel
(Related: People, Advice, Help, Moments)
"I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice."
- Diahann Carroll
(Related: Friend, Advice, Words)
"She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)."
- Lewis Carroll
(Related: Advice)
"After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down."
- Barbara Cartland
(Related: Advice, Losing, Woman)
"You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board."
- M. Kathleen Casey
(Related: Advice, Want)
"The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road."
- Emma Caulfield
(Related: Time, Advice, Limits, Open, Respect, Road)
"We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it."
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
(Related: Friend, Being, Forget, Intellectuals, Will, Word)
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."
- George Chapman
(Related: Advice, Want)
"I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't."
- Joan Chen
(Related: Advice, Being, Giving)
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least."
- Earl of Chesterfield
(Related: Advice, Want)
"I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Advice)
"In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Advice, Now)
"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Religion, Advice, Matrimony, Will, World)
"Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least."
- Lord Chesterfield
(Related: Advice)
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Success, Advice)
"The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice."
- Susan Chira
(Related: Advice, Burden, Motherhood)
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Advice, Reason)
"My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: History, Advice, Justice)
"In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Advice, Now)
"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Advice, Country, English, Fire, World)
"No one can give you better advice than yourself."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Advice)
"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Advice)
"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Age, Advice, End, Journey, Old, Road)
"I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything."
- George Clooney
(Related: Advice)
"I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice."
- Benjamin Cohen
(Related: People, Advice)
"Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Advice, Mind, Snow)
"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery."
- John Churton Collins
(Related: Advice, Flattery)
"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
- Kitty O'Neill Collins
(Related: Advice, Present)
"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."
- Kitty O'Neill Collins
(Related: Advice, May, Sense)
"We ask advice, but we mean approbation."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Advice)
"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
- Bill Cosby
(Related: Advice, Word)
"Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording."
- Charlie Daniels
(Related: Business, Advice, College, Direction, Now, Old, Play, Years)
"Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business."
- Jack Davenport
(Related: Business, Mother, Advice)
"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice."
- Moshe Dayan
(Related: Money, Advice, American, Friends)
"I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it."
- Judi Dench
(Related: Act, Advice)
"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."
- Gordon R. Dickson
(Related: People, Advice)
"My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you."
- Vin Diesel
(Related: Car, Mother, Advice, Credit)
"Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children."
- Phyllis Diller
(Related: Work, Advice, Children)
"No vice is so bad as advice."
- Marie Dressler
(Related: Advice)
"A good scare is worth more than good advice."
- J. W. Eagan
(Related: Advice, Worth)
"We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice."
- Lawrence Eagleburger
(Related: Business, Attitude, Advice, Care, Help, Right)
"Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet."
- King Edward VIII
(Related: Opportunity, Positive, Advice, Chance, Feet, Old, Rest, Rules)
"Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you."
- Zac Efron
(Related: People, Advice)
"That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous."
- Atom Egoyan
(Related: Dad, Advice, Film, Irony, Language)
"My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!"
- Ben Elton
(Related: Advice)
"Don't give your advice before you are called upon."
- Desiderius Erasmus
(Related: Advice)
"Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice."
- Jimmy Fallon
(Related: Advice)
"I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say."
- Brett Favre
(Related: Advice, Night, Worry)
"If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times."
- Anselm Feuerbach
(Related: Advice, Right, Will)
"Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend."
- Leslie Fiedler
(Related: Friend, Advice)
"Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee."
- Martin H. Fischer
(Related: Work, Nature, Advice, Partnership)
"I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening."
- Alexander Fleming
(Related: Advice, Appearance, Chance, Influence, May, Neglect, Trying)
"All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs."
- Andrew Fletcher
(Related: Men, Advice, Court, EnglEnglish)
"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Work, God, Advice, End, Will, Worry)
"My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project."
- Lukas Foss
(Related: Love, Music, Project, Students, Want, Will)
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Character, Advice, Lies, Parents, Right)
"How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
- Anne Frank
(Related: Character, Advice, Children, Lies, Parents, Right, Words)
"When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both."
- Al Franken
(Related: Advice)
"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Men, Advice, Fools)
"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
- Galileo Galilei
(Related: Advice, Beginning, Mathematics)
"You can keep it to yourself, but you could also call a support team like the team at MS LifeLines. They are there to support the MS community and give good advice."
- Teri Garr
(Related: Advice, Community, Support)
"I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice."
- Teri Garr
(Related: People, Advice, Pity, Talk, Want)
"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: People, Act, Advice)
"I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice."
- Kathie Lee Gifford
(Related: Advice, EnglFashion, Queen)
"A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests."
- Alma Gluck
(Related: Advice, Poor, Saying, Will, Worth)
"If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident."
- Alma Gluck
(Related: Work, Goal, Accident, Advice, Study)
"If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal."
- Trisha Goddard
(Related: Family, Advice, Countries, Woman, World)
"Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching."
- Baltasar Gracian
(Related: Advice, Grave, Teaching)
"Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me."
- Lauren Graham
(Related: Sister, People, Advice, Deep, Fact, Hair, Want, Will)
"To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own."
- John Gray
(Related: Advice, Man)
"Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him."
- John Gray
(Related: Idea, Advice, Help, Man, May, Sound, Woman)
"Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well."
- Germaine Greer
(Related: War, Advice, Children, Present)
"Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field."
- Jane Haddam
(Related: Advice, Writer)
"My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people."
- Laurell K. Hamilton
(Related: People, Advice, Friends)
"When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!"
- Mariska Hargitay
(Related: Women, Advice, Hair)
"My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away."
- Jerry Harrison
(Related: Advice, Right, Singing, Songs, Writing)
"The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps."
- Jim Harrison
(Related: Life, Advice, Wine, Writers)
"My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star."
- Teri Hatcher
(Related: Goals, Advice)
"I'm not a very good advice-giver."
- Juliana Hatfield
(Related: Advice)
"Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone."
- Roy Haynes
(Related: Work, Advice, May, Now, Today, Word, World, Years)
"What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him."
- Roy Haynes
(Related: Advice)
"It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give."
- Anne Heche
(Related: Advice, Giving)
"They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
- Lillian Hellman
(Related: Advice, Fancy, Talking, Writers, Writing)
"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves."
- Lillian Hellman
(Related: Advice, Talking, Writers, Writing)
"April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags."
- Ed Helms
(Related: Advice, April, Corporations, Tax, Taxes, Trouble)
"The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Advice, Luxury)
"We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice."
- Arthur Helps
(Related: Wisdom, People, Advice)
"To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing."
- Herodotus
(Related: Advice, Giving)
"Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings."
- Robert Herrick
(Related: Advice, Danger, Kings)
"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work."
- David Hockney
(Related: Work, Advice, Artist)
"As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today."
- Paul Hoffman
(Related: Advice, Respect, Today)
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Related: Men, Advice, Books)
"The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process."
- John Jay Hooker
(Related: Power, Advice, Constitution, Majority, Minority, President, Right, Senate, Senators)
"It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate."
- John Jay Hooker
(Related: Advice, Authority, Congress, Law, President, Senate)
"I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am."
- Tom Hopkins
(Related: Advice)
"Whatever advice you give, be short."
- Horace
(Related: Advice)
"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write."
- Robert E. Howard
(Related: Advice, Writers, Writing)
"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
- Edward W. Howe
(Related: Advice, Man, Worth)
"My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don't give up!"
- Vanessa Hudgens
(Related: Advice, Kids)
"His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you."
- Oliver Hudson
(Related: Love, Fear, Failure, Advice)
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
- Aldous Huxley
(Related: Life, Advice, End)
"Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate."
- Patricia Ireland
(Related: Advice, Senate)
"I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions."
- Peter Jennings
(Related: Advice)
"The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery."
- Samuel Johnson
(Related: Advice)
"Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice."
- Franklin P. Jones
(Related: Legal, Advice, Talk)
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Advice)
"He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it."
- Erica Jong
(Related: Advice)
"You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply."
- William Joyce
(Related: Life, Advice, Hate, Nothing)
"If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth."
- Walid Jumblatt
(Related: Truth, Advice, Investigation, President)
"The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants."
- Jack Kevorkian
(Related: Medical, Decision, Advice)
"If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you will see what God has willed."
- Hulagu Khan
(Related: God, Family, Intelligence, Advice, Will)
"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Advice, Opinion, Regret, Will)
"In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn quickly I couldn't do that."
- Jurgen Klinsmann
(Related: People, Advice, Coach, Decisions, Order, Years)
"I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to."
- Chuck Klosterman
(Related: Life, People, Advice)
"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Mother, Advice)
"Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place."
- Neil Kurshan
(Related: Advice, Children, Respect, Will)
"I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click."
- Nick Lachey
(Related: People, Advice, Giving)
"I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know?"
- Nick Lachey
(Related: People, Advice)
"My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect."
- James Lafferty
(Related: Work, People, Actor, Advice, Learning, Nothing, Practice, Want)
"You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own."
- Willis Lamb
(Related: Advice, Friends)
"The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?"
- Richard Land
(Related: Advice, President, Skin)
"Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes."
- Ann Landers
(Related: Advice, May, Mistakes, Wind)
"It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice."
- Karl Landsteiner
(Related: Idea, Possibility, Advice, Cooperation)
"Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too."
- Matthew Lawrence
(Related: Education, Acting, Advice, Career, End, Fact, Hollywood, Jobs, Kids, Pretty)
"My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out."
- Timothy Leary
(Related: Life, People, Advice, Energy, Sense, Today)
"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it."
- Harper Lee
(Related: Advice, Profit)
"Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice."
- Philip Levine
(Related: Poetry, Work, People, Advice, Care)
"My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it."
- Samuel Lover
(Related: Advice, Applause)
"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
- Robert Lynd
(Related: Friendship, Advice, Will)
"Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young."
- Jena Malone
(Related: Advice)
"There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever."
- Joe Mantegna
(Related: People, Advice, Will)
"Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice."
- Don J. Manuel
(Related: Wealth, Advice, Man, Poor)
"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."
- W. Somerset Maugham
(Related: Death, Advice, Nothing)
"Advice to persons about to marry - don't."
- Henry Mayhew
(Related: Advice)
"There are a lot of personal things that take place when becoming governor and I am happy to work with him should he ask. I will give him the best advice I can give."
- Scott McCallum
(Related: Work, Advice, Will)
"An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice."
- John McCarthy
(Related: Advice, Extreme, Humanity, Will)
"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."
- John McGahern
(Related: Advice, Books, Direction, Television)
"I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not."
- Peter Medawar
(Related: Age, Advice, Conviction)
"An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides."
- Edwin Meese
(Related: Home, Advice, Responsibility)
"My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years."
- Christina Milian
(Related: Advice, Footsteps, Patience, Years)
"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Related: Advice, Attention, Mistakes)
"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Related: Advice, Promise)
"But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence."
- Hugh Miller
(Related: History, Fear, Advice, Canada)
"If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself."
- Beverley Mitchell
(Related: Advice, College)
"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it."
- Wilson Mizner
(Related: Wisdom, Advice, Profit)
"Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation."
- Maria Monk
(Related: Thought, Advice, Separation)
"I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy."
- Thomas S. Monson
(Related: Work, Life, Advice, Missionaries, Study, World)
"Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise."
- Thomas More
(Related: Advice, Woman)
"My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term."
- Estelle Morris
(Related: Advice, Autumn, Schools, Support, Will)
"However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way."
- Alex Morrison
(Related: Advice, First, Influence, Military, Security, Will)
"I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice."
- Alex Morrison
(Related: Advice, Military, Security)
"The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week."
- Joe Morton
(Related: Character, Actors, Advice, Months)
"Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province."
- Lord Mountbatten
(Related: Advice, Criticism, Trouble)
"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
- Jack Nicholson
(Related: Advice)
"Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs."
- Richard M. Nixon
(Related: Advice, Needs, President, Privacy)
"I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them."
- Richard M. Nixon
(Related: Experience, Winning, Advice, Losing)
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
- Henri Nouwen
(Related: Advice, Giving, Pain, Wounds)
"Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields."
- Marvin Olasky
(Related: War, Advice, Kids, Months, Now, Parents, Summer, Teaching, Visit, Want)
"That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier."
- Bill O'Reilly
(Related: Life, Advice, Army, Will)
"The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look because that's what got you into this mess."
- Sarah Palin
(Related: Advice, Blame, Friends)
"Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition."
- Robert B. Parker
(Related: People, Advice, Competition)
"Never give advice in a crowd."
- Pope Paul VI
(Related: Advice)
"It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard."
- Phaedrus
(Related: Advice, Fool)
"The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none."
- Eden Phillpotts
(Related: People, Advice)
"Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life."
- Titus Maccius Plautus
(Related: Life, Friend, Advice, Man, Needs)
"And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go."
- Jerry Pournelle
(Related: Advice, Writers)
"Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you."
- Charley Pride
(Related: Advice, Fans, Praise, Will)
"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."
- J. B. Priestley
(Related: People, Advice)
"I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men."
- Victoria Principal
(Related: Men, Business, Advice, Woman)
"The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all."
- Protagoras
(Related: Advice, Excellence, Right)
"The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally."
- Carroll Quigley
(Related: History, People, Advice)
"Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment."
- Sally Quinn
(Related: Religion, HusbAdvice, Help, Style)
"I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms."
- Usher Raymond
(Related: Women, Mother, Advice, Eye)
"The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it."
- Cliff Richard
(Related: Art, Time, Advice, World, Years)
"At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler."
- Dennis Ritchie
(Related: People, Advice, Language, Mail)
"When I read commentary about suggestions for where C should go, I often think back and give thanks that it wasn't developed under the advice of a worldwide crowd."
- Dennis Ritchie
(Related: Advice)
"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise."
- Joan Rivers
(Related: Advice, Mind, Spirit)
"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Ability, Act, Advice, Profit, Self)
"The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: People, Advice, Liberal)
"There is nothing men are so generous of as advice."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Men, Advice, Nothing)
"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Wisdom, Advice, Profit)
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Advice, Example, Man, Old)
"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Men, Advice, Nothing)
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Advice)
"Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Love, People, Advice, Example, Old)
"Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Men, Advice, Giving, Old)
"My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries."
- Guido van Rossum
(Related: People, Perception, Advice, Libraries)
"When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart."
- Helen Rowland
(Related: Time, Wife, Heart, Advice, Compliments, Criticism, Giving, Judgment, Man, Manners)
"Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile."
- Rudy Rucker
(Related: Advice, Beginning, Writers)
"The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental."
- Fred Saberhagen
(Related: Power, People, Advice, Fiction, Friends, Relatives, Writing)
"But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off."
- Eriq La Salle
(Related: Love, People, Advice, Direction, Talking)
"We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do."
- David Sarnoff
(Related: Advice, Hate, Will)
"My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things."
- Adam Savage
(Related: Advice)
"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."
- Friedrich Schiller
(Related: Advice, Safety)
"For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table."
- Arthur Schwartz
(Related: Food, Advice, Cooking, Eating)
"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees."
- Andres Segovia
(Related: Music, Advice, Flowers, Giving, Islands, Ocean, Students, Study, Trees)
"There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.""
- Jerry Seinfeld
(Related: Men, Women, Advice, Want)
"When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Advice)
"I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well."
- Omar Sharif
(Related: People, Advice, Giving)
"This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition."
- Omar Sharif
(Related: Character, Advice, Film, Sound, Tradition)
"He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has."
- Omar Sharif
(Related: Wisdom, Advice, Man, Mind)
"One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it."
- William Shatner
(Related: Advice, Being)
"Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox."
- Anna Howard Shaw
(Related: Equality, Advice, Measure)
"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
- George Bernard Shaw
(Related: Sex, Advice)
"As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula."
- Bobby Sherman
(Related: Advice, Formula, Idols, Potential, Teenage)
"The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'"
- Dinah Shore
(Related: Money, Father, Advice)
"So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal."
- Clare Short
(Related: Legal, War, Advice, Public, Question, Suspicion)
"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."
- Samuel Smiles
(Related: Men, Mistake, Success, Failure, Advice, Example, Study, Succeed)
"Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once."
- Horace Smith
(Related: Advice, Events, Forget, Man)
"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."
- Logan P. Smith
(Related: Advice, Man, Sound)
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."
- Socrates
(Related: Wife, Advice)
"In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend."
- Solon
(Related: Friend, Advice, Giving, Help)
"No enemy is worse than bad advice."
- Sophocles
(Related: Advice, Enemy)
"There is nothing more hateful than bad advice."
- Sophocles
(Related: Advice, Nothing)
"I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed."
- Theodore C. Sorensen
(Related: Ideas, Advice, Doubt, Information, Philosophy)
"Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively."
- Bubba Sparxxx
(Related: Art, Advice, Artist)
"No one wants advice - only corroboration."
- John Steinbeck
(Related: Advice)
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career."
- Gloria Steinem
(Related: Marriage, Advice, Career, Man)
"We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain."
- Tom Stoppard
(Related: Advice)
"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you."
- Meryl Streep
(Related: People, Advice)
"It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!"
- Anne Sullivan
(Related: Experience, People, Advice, Opinions, Wrong)
"The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it."
- Kiefer Sutherland
(Related: Father, Truth, Act, Acting, Advice, Trying)
"If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice."
- Ichiro Suzuki
(Related: Advice)
"The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick."
- Anne Sophie Swetchine
(Related: Art, Advice, Being)
"My advice is to make acting your second career choice."
- Amber Tamblyn
(Related: Acting, Advice, Career, Choice)
"A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction."
- Amber Tamblyn
(Related: Truth, People, Acting, Advice, Direction, Talk, Want, Will, Wrong)
"Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me."
- Rip Taylor
(Related: Advice)
"For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness."
- Terence
(Related: Love, Advice, Madness, Rules)
"So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around."
- Alan Thicke
(Related: Life, Advice, Reality, Television, Writers)
"Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear."
- Emma Thompson
(Related: Advice, Children)
"There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life."
- Henry David Thoreau
(Related: Life, Power, Advice, Example, Help, Old, World)
"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
- Harry S. Truman
(Related: Advice, Children, Want)
"The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
- Harry S. Truman
(Related: Advice, Children, Want)
"Listen to advice, but follow your heart."
- Conway Twitty
(Related: Heart, Advice)
"Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it."
- Robert Urich
(Related: Medical, Family, Control, Hope, Advice, Friends, Neighbors, Talk)
"My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it."
- John W. Vessey, Jr.
(Related: Advice, Defense, Job, Military, President)
"My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed."
- Mark Warner
(Related: Success, Work, Advice, Friends, Hard work, Luck, Mentors, Support, Trying)
"Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen."
- Shawn Wayans
(Related: Women, Advice, Problems, Want)
"Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive."
- Carolyn Wells
(Related: Advice)
"What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists."
- Paul Wellstone
(Related: Power, Purpose, Advice, Identity, Poor, Scientists, Sense)
"Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it."
- Donald E. Westlake
(Related: Advice, Space)
"I've been homeschooling for eight years and have always received the best advice and encouragement from other homeschoolers, rather than a book or lecture."
- Lisa Whelchel
(Related: Advice, Encouragement, Years)
"My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias."
- William Allen White
(Related: Women, Advice, America, Hell)
"The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'"
- Katherine Whitehorn
(Related: Advice, Careers)
"I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself."
- Olivia Wilde
(Related: Dating, Funny, Time, Heart, Idea, Advice, Friends, Nothing, Romantic, Trying)
"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Advice)
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Advice)
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."
- Thornton Wilder
(Related: Advice)
"I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion."
- Barry Williams
(Related: Love, Positive, Advice, Joy, Passion)
"As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?"
- Fay Wray
(Related: Advice, Will)
"It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions."
- Michael York
(Related: Actors, Advice, Opinions, Question, Will)
"I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free."
- Pia Zadora
(Related: Home, Love, Advice)
"I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give."
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
(Related: Business, Time, People, Advice, Being, Strangers)
"Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it."
- Barry Zito
(Related: Advice)
"Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there."
- David Zucker
(Related: Advice, Now)